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All Encompassing Head Coach Search Thread
- Thread starter Hollywood Cannon
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Give a your percentage of confidence in the Flyers coaching search finding a difference maker of a coach instead of a yes man for the country club.
10% for me
10% for me
Appleyard
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Just one of those things with the NHL where have to put in the miles and wait... and still might never happen.
Right now though trying to contribute to a Clark Cup is the end-goal!
TheKingPin
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I’ve seen you, the above posters, and a few others like Flyguy and Magua on here be pretty consistently right over and over again. I really don’t understand why the Flyers can’t be better or why we don’t just hire these guys as the scouts. I feel pretty confident we would be top 5 in the NHL from a drafting standpoint.
BackToTheBrierePatch
eff cancer
What percentage will Briere’s say have in the next coach. I have mixed feelings on how much he will be pushed to a certain coach by Clarke, Holmgren and the rest of the old boys club
Jared Bednar is what people think Rick Tocchet is when they say he’s a winner.
Flyerfan4life
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scumpup
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after you see my mock draft you'll be begging me to drive down to haddonfield to knock on danny's door
JojoTheWhale
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I just want to be 100% clear that I am a terrible and useless hockey scout. This is not fishing for compliments. Never listen to me on that stuff. Ever. Unless you want to sign Wyatt Kalynuk right now. Other people here certainly could.
I could be whatever the hell Jones is. That is it. It's all relationships, being a steady no bullshit presence, and greasing the machine to let the smart people do their work in peace. No different than a corporate gig.
But yes, I think the bar for being a mediocre NHL GM is functionally non-existent. If you can breathe and you're willing to listen, you can do the job.
I can promise one thing if I was in that position. You’d be entertained.
BiggE
SELL THE DAMN TEAM
If I was gonna put odds on em:
Tocchet 40%
Lappy 30%
Ferschwhatever 10%
McKee 10%
Shaw 5%
Carle 1%
Other 4%
Tocchet 40%
Lappy 30%
Ferschwhatever 10%
McKee 10%
Shaw 5%
Carle 1%
Other 4%
kudymen
Hakstok was a fascist clique hiver lickballs.gif
The best I could do for the organization would be being Gritty.
JojoTheWhale
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I would personally enjoy thr hell out of a Gritty powered by Budvar.
BillDineen
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I wonder if winning the lottery means they push to have Shaw involved as even more of a priority? Assuming they take Schaefer
Striiker
Former Flyers Fan
If any of you ever somehow gain a high up position in the Flyers org, please just let me run the social media accounts.
You don’t even have to pay me. I have ideas.
You don’t even have to pay me. I have ideas.
kudymen
Hakstok was a fascist clique hiver lickballs.gif
I cant express how much I laughed the day I learned Budvar had to be (for obvious reasons) marketed as a "Czechvar" brand in the US.
(literally "Czechbrew"; original name Budějovický Budvar translatable as Budweiser Budvar, from the city of Budweis, trademarked in the US... )
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Appleyard
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The Czechs should make US "Bud" change its name in Czechia tbh, know they cant technically call it Budweiser in a lot of Europe... not that anyone would buy it there anyway.
Something like Pissvoda, as anything else would be really against trading standards...
Gregor Samsa
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Flyers are probably 2 head coaches away from the roster being potentially competitive. I would have to think they would look more for a developmental coach but who knows. I’m not sure a retread wants to coach the Flyers now. It’s a position suited for a 1st time NHL coach
kudymen
Hakstok was a fascist clique hiver lickballs.gif
Beef Invictus
Revolutionary Positivity
I just read the title as "All Embarrassing Head Coaching Search" and I sure hope it isn't that
GKJ
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Frank made a great point about Tocchet the other day. All the things that seem to made him keen to leave Vancouver, such as their plan, ‘ability to affect change’ as he puts it, or potential to win, what have the Flyers done to be put in a better position?
Gregor Samsa
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Next season should be a mulligan. No coach is going to get this team into the playoffs and the roster can’t radically be reshaped in an offseason. My hopes are Shaw or Lappy agrees to take the helm for ~2 years with the potential for more if a good job is done. Ownership gives Briere 2 more years with the caveat that the team has to be looking like they have potential 2-3 seasons from now. It was always going to take time post-Fletcher to attempt to right the ship. No coach or GM would turn this team into a contender or even a playoff team quickly
LegionOfDoom91
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I think offering Tocchet a lot money & him possibly having a personal connection to the organization to the point where it could blind him to challenges are probably the only thing going for the Flyers here.
I think if you look at it practically though if you’re Tocchet this is probably your last shot where you have good stock around the league. I don’t think any of these jobs Flyers included are you setting you up to win any time soon.
I think sitting out the year & going back to TNT while waiting for the next coaching cycle might make a lot of sense for him.
I think if you look at it practically though if you’re Tocchet this is probably your last shot where you have good stock around the league. I don’t think any of these jobs Flyers included are you setting you up to win any time soon.
I think sitting out the year & going back to TNT while waiting for the next coaching cycle might make a lot of sense for him.
